Why is the "Resistance" giving warrantless surveillance power to Trump?

Who needs enemies when you have friends like the corporate Democrats, especially Nancy Pelosi. They helped pass 256-164, reauthorized Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act,before it expired. There were some Democrats who opposed it but 55 of them supported this bill. Now they can search your phone calls, on-line communication, texts, etc. anytime they want. Just the kind of power we want Trump to have, right?

"The law serves as the legal backing for two mammoth NSA programs revealed by Edward Snowden: Upstream, which collects information from the internet junctions where data passes in and out of the country, and PRISM, which collects communications from U.S.-based internet companies, like Google, Microsoft, Apple, and Yahoo.

The programs rest on the notion that they are “targeting” foreigners, but they also collect massive amounts of data on Americans, including wholly domestic communications. Amazingly, the intelligence community has never disclosed how much. Numerous members of Congress have requested an estimate since 2011, but both the Obama and Trump administrations have refused to provide one.

The bill also consolidates the FBI’s legal authority to search those communications without a warrant. Under current rules, the NSA shares certain kinds of information it collects under Section 702 with the FBI, whose agents can then search it in the course of investigating crimes unrelated to national security. In a secret court hearing in 2015, a lawyer for the Justice Department compared the frequency of those searches to the use of Google. . . "

When did Nancy Pelosi become the head of the "resistance movement"? Why conflate corporatism and resistance?

Because the corporatism is pretending to be the resistance. Nancy Pelosi is a leading Democrat. Last June she kicked off the "Summer of Resistance." ( http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/democrats-kick-off-anti-trump-resistance-summer/article/2624624). At the rally she said that, "Democrats would work to stop the GOP agenda and Trump." Key elections are coming in 2018 and the Democrats need to rebuild before those. So it was surprising to see her push for allowing warentless survaillence, a tool that could be used by Trump to undermine resistence efforts. Seems hypocritical to me. I've been critical of the corporate Democrats and this is one more example of why I think the Democrats don't seem to learn from their wipeout in 2016. It would have only taken 26 Democrats to kill this bill or assure it had an amendment to require a warrent to do survaillence. Instead they got a "Thank You!" from Paul Ryan. Some resistance.

Here is another excerpt from my original link specifically on Pelosi:

" . . . Joining the pro-surveillance coalition led by Trump, Paul Ryan, Devin Nunes, Schiff, and Swalwell was the House’s liberal icon and senior Democrat, Nancy Pelosi. The San Francisco Democrat also stood on the House floor and offered a vigorous defense of the Trump-endorsed bill that would extend to Trump’s FBI the power to spy on Americans without warrants, in the process denouncing the minimal warrant safeguards favored by many in her own party. Pelosi’s speech earned praise from GOP House Speaker Paul Ryan: “I want to thank [Pelosi] for coming up and speaking against the Amash amendment, and in favor of the underlying bipartisan [bill].”

In one sense, Pelosi’s pro-surveillance stance is not surprising. Back in the summer of 2013, as the Snowden revelations of mass domestic surveillance sparked a global debate about privacy and abuse of spying powers, an extraordinary bipartisan alliance formed in Congress to impose serious limits on the NSA’s power to spy on Americans without warrants. Back then, a bill that would have imposed real limits and safeguards on the NSA, one jointly sponsored by Conyers and Amash, unexpectedly picked up large numbers of supporters from both parties — despite opposition from both parties’ congressional leadership — to the point where it looked like it was unstoppably headed for passage.

Official Washington and its national security community began to panic over what looked to be the first rollback of government national security power since the 9/11 attack. Fortunately for the NSA, CIA, and FBI, they found a crucial ally to kill the bill: Nancy Pelosi. Behind the scenes, she had pressured and coerced enough House Democrats to oppose the reform bill, ensuring its narrow defeat. The Conyers/Amash bill — which would have severely limited domestic mass surveillance — was defeated by the razor-thin margin of 217-205. Foreign Policy magazine correctly identified the key author of its defeat, the person who singlehandedly saved NSA mass surveillance in the U.S.: [Nancy Pelosi] "

I see "The Resistance" as a grass roots movement. Of course establishment politicians will try to co-opt it, but "the people" must pressure the politicians. In fact it is the people who must lead.

So, how does that work? We pressure which politicians to do what? Did people pressure Nancy Pelosi to gift Trump with uninterrupted warrantless surveillance of all Americans? Are we supposed to just ignore that and just keep thinking our only problem is Trump?

Douglass, Frederick.

Look, this bad **** can only happen if we, the people, allow it to happen. We—you and I and everyone in the USA—can stop this in a couple weeks if we had the will to do so. MILLIONS of citizens need to be in the streets, in sustained, peaceful protest for days and weeks on end. MILLIONS. In Washington. In New York. In Chicago. In Boston. In Los Angeles. In Des Moines. IN. THE. STREETS.

The reason this is not happening? Two things: 1. Mueller. We are expecting Mueller to end it all. We are putting it all in his hands. As long as the investigation goes on, we have the false sense that "something" is being "done." 2. Social media. Before social media people had a need to gather in the marketplace, to gather in the town square, in the city streets for mutual support and to commune with others about what they are seeing with their own eyes and to derive energy and motivation from others. Now we can do that on Facebook and MOL.

Look, this bad **** can only happen if we, the people, allow it to happen. We—you and I and everyone in the USA—can stop this in a couple weeks if we had the will to do so. MILLIONS of citizens need to be in the streets, in sustained, peaceful protest for days and weeks on end. MILLIONS. In Washington. In New York. In Chicago. In Boston. In Los Angeles. In Des Moines. IN. THE. STREETS.

I don't understand what she is saying. I am talking about how the Democrats just voted for us to be be under surveillance without a warrant. I'm confused by her answer. Is she saying we should march in the streets to protest Democrats or just Trump or what. I agree we should be marching in the streets about this so if that is what she is saying, I agree with her.

Look, this bad **** can only happen if we, the people, allow it to happen. We—you and I and everyone in the USA—can stop this in a couple weeks if we had the will to do so. MILLIONS of citizens need to be in the streets, in sustained, peaceful protest for days and weeks on end. MILLIONS. In Washington. In New York. In Chicago. In Boston. In Los Angeles. In Des Moines. IN. THE. STREETS.

I don't understand what she is saying. I am talking about how the Democrats just voted for us to be be under surveillance without a warrant. I'm confused by her answer. Is she saying we should march in the streets to protest Democrats or just Trump or what. I agree we should be marching in the streets about this so if that is what she is saying, I agree with her.

Look, this bad **** can only happen if we, the people, allow it to happen. We—you and I and everyone in the USA—can stop this in a couple weeks if we had the will to do so. MILLIONS of citizens need to be in the streets, in sustained, peaceful protest for days and weeks on end. MILLIONS. In Washington. In New York. In Chicago. In Boston. In Los Angeles. In Des Moines. IN. THE. STREETS.

When fully 40 percent of the population still supports the moron no change will happen

But even more pressing is that the majority who want him out are "sunshine patriots".......they will

go to a march if the weather is nice.............they will send checks and do all the liberal book will allow

like signing petitions. And there the line is drawn..........they will not fill the jails, clog the courts

or do anything outside the purveyance of the law. And that is a pretty big net. Civil Disobedience is translated as disorderly conduct and of course is cause for arrest.

There is a world of difference between a liberal and a radical. Of course Gandhi, Thoreau and Martin

Luther King were considered radicals and shunned half way measures. And it cost all of them

"The tree of Liberty is watered by the blood of patriots"..........Tom Paine

PS. I never have and never will vote for the lesser of two evils. My vote is precious and if I must find

a fourth party candidate..............they will be my champion

That's the problem. Your vote is not precious. Nobody's vote is precious. It's not about personal champions or a form of personal expression. It's not like a tattoo to express yourself. It is ONLY about the outcome.

News Flash: This thread is not about Trump. This thread is about how the Democrats voted for warrantless surveillance on all Americans. The Democrats who call themselves, "The Resistance." Where is the outrage about that?

PS. I never have and never will vote for the lesser of two evils. My vote is precious and if I must find

a fourth party candidate..............they will be my champion

All that means is that you will vote for the lesser of four evils. One can choose to use his vote to exercise power by trying to affect the outcome or one can choose to use his vote as a protest. I've done both.

How is joining a group focused on impeaching Trump supposed to help with Democrats voting to give him warrentless survaillence, the precursor to a totalitarian state?

How else do you influence Democrats to vote differently other than by creating a Movement to pressure them? The Movement can even Primary those who are not supportive of the policies favored by that Movement.

Recall how the Tea Party moved the Republicans to the Right.

The Resistance should not be only about impeaching Trump. It should be a very minor focus if at all, and then should be only a tactic.

By the way 55 Dems voted for while 125 voted against. And Congress gave Bush and Obama the same power.